Lake Roosevelt was largely unnoticed until 1986, when the Washington Department of Ecology first studied heavy metals contamination in the lake. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.12/download-entire-issue
Toxics from Canada pile up in U.S. reservoir
Posted inJune 18, 1990: Uranium has decimated Navajo miners
Yvon Chouinard: A mutinous captain of industry
“I never wanted to be a businessman,” says the owner of Patagonia clothing and gear company, “because I thought businessmen were real greaseballs. In fact I still do.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 18, 1990: Uranium has decimated Navajo miners
Uranium has decimated Navajo miners
In a Navajo community of 1,000 just west of the New Mexico state line, many families are trying to cope with the loss of loved ones and the sight of numerous others slowly dying from lung cancer. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.12/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 13, 1994: A doomed species?
Gold mines are sucking aquifers dry
ELKO, Nev. – At the Canadian-owned Barrick Goldstrike mine in northeastern Nevada, 30 giant pumps draw 68,000 gallons of water a minute to the surface, 24 hours a day. The pumps have lowered the water table under the open pit mine 1,200 feet. This dewatering keeps the pit bottom, which is now some 800 feet […]
Posted inJune 9, 1997: Chaos comes to Costilla County
Two tales of a single county
Dear HCN, In your recent article (“Beauty and the Beast,” HCN, 4/14/97), Paul Larmer painted a rather bleak picture of the Kane County, Utah, economy. That negative economic portrait was part of an effort to explain why it was “no wonder everyone was hopping mad when the president took that hope (of the Andalex coal […]
Posted inJune 4, 1990: The stake in the West's heart
A new gold rush hits the West
The new American gold rush is after a different kind of deposit than the veins, nuggets and flakes which tantalized the imagination of the forty-niners. These days the hunt is for low-grade, ore bodies with microscopic gold. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 4, 1990: The stake in the West's heart
A glossary of mining terms
Definitions of “reclamation,” “bonding,” and “sensitive areas.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 4, 1990: The stake in the West's heart
A tenacious law may lose its grip
The fight over mining in the West may tum out to be one of the bloodiest environmental battles of the 20th century. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inJune 4, 1990: The stake in the West's heart
A primer on the mining law
Development of a mine under the 1872 Mining Law is radically different from development of any other public resource. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.11/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 21, 1990: Will Las Vegas drain rural Nevada?
North Dakota: a Garrison junkie
The Garrison project may be a greater disaster than the Dust Bowl. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 21, 1990: Will Las Vegas drain rural Nevada?
Dying Nevada town bets its last bucks on a speculative power plant
In Wells, Nevada, local residents would gladly trade the fresh air for jobs. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 21, 1990: Will Las Vegas drain rural Nevada?
Will Las Vegas drain rural Nevada?
The city’s boom could come to a screeching halt in as little as four years unless Las Vegas gets more water. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.10/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 7, 1990: Readers react: A sequel to the special issue on grazing
Ranchers’ hold on agency revealed
When his Forest Service superiors told him he had so angered the ranchers he was working with that he should apply for a transfer, District Ranger Don Oman refused. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 7, 1990: Readers react: A sequel to the special issue on grazing
Ex-BLMer says industry prevents resource management
“I believe proper grazing management can allow recovery and still maintain the land. But before grazing can be sustainable, the BLM must be reformed.” Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inMay 7, 1990: Readers react: A sequel to the special issue on grazing
The public range begins to green up
Grazing reform appears to be a sustainable and unstoppable movement to recover lost land. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.9/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 23, 1990: HCN's Annual Guide to Outdoor Education in the West
Senate’s new air bill would further dirty the West’s air
The 1990 Senate compromise bill would increase pollution 23 percent throughout the West. It would also weaken the power of the federal government to protect the air over pristine areas. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 23, 1990: HCN's Annual Guide to Outdoor Education in the West
How the outdoors got into the West’s schools
In 1970, when Earth Day was born and Rudy Schafer was working for the California Department of Education, he managed the state’s environmental education program but wasn’t content to leave it at that. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.8/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 9, 1990: Groups plot political strategies for ancient forest protection
Forestry newspeak prevents us from seeing the ecosystem
Terminology has a big influence on our way of thinking and the way we perceive issues. It also affects the way we allot funds for public lands. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 9, 1990: Groups plot political strategies for ancient forest protection
The most complex ecosystems on earth
Scientists have discovered that old-growth forests, far from being biological deserts, are among the most complex ecosystems on earth, habitat for dozens of animals that might not be able to survive anywhere else. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.7/download-entire-issue
Posted inApril 9, 1990: Groups plot political strategies for ancient forest protection
Ancient forest protection: Groups plot political strategies
As the effects of last year’s congressional compromise trickle down to the ground and the ancient forests of the Northwest continue to fall as fast as ever, conservationists and politicians have been wrestling to draft new legislation that would save the remaining trees. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/22.7/download-entire-issue